“…I suspect people would be in for a real shock if they knew the depths of [Obama's] historical ignorance.”
May 25, 2008 http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/30079_Obama-_Bush_is_Responsible_for_Chavez_(Bzzt!_Wrong!)&only
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Larry Wall (1954) American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl
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Richard Feynman (1918–1988) American theoretical physicist
" Simulating Physics with Computers http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~christos/classics/Feynman.pdf", International Journal of Theoretical Physics, volume 21, 1982, p. 467-488, at p. 471 <br class="br">Context: We always have had … a great deal of difficulty in understanding the world view that quantum mechanics represents. At least I do, because I'm an old enough man that I haven't got to the point that this stuff is obvious to me. Okay, I still get nervous with it. And therefore, some of the younger students … you know how it always is, every new idea, it takes a generation or two until it becomes obvious that there's no real problem. It has not yet become obvious to me that there's no real problem. I cannot define the real problem, therefore I suspect there's no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem.
David Ben-Gurion (1886–1973) Israeli politician, Zionist leader, prime minister of Israel
Attributed to Ben-Gurion (pre-War 1939) by Martin Gilbert in "Israel was everything" in The New York Times (21 June 1987) http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE2DB1539F932A15755C0A961948260&pagewanted=2
John F. Kerry (1943) politician from the United States
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“Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.”
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Quoted in Look (New York, 23 February 1954).
Cf. Russell (1928), Sceptical Essays, «It is obvious that "obscenity" is not a term capable of exact legal definition; in the practice of the Courts, it means "anything that shocks the magistrate".»
1950s
“At some point in my life I realized I knew only celebrities, I didn't know any real people.”
Elaine Dundy (1921–2008) American journalist, actress
Life Itself (2001)
Context: At some point in my life I realized I knew only celebrities, I didn't know any real people. I think it was a master stroke of Fate that in researching the greatest celebrity of them all, I would at last be meeting real people, finding them more extraordinary than celebrities; fascinated by them all and enjoying enduring friendships with some.
Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica
Source: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947
